Thimble for lasts.



PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905.

F. E. BENTON. THIMBLB FOR LASTS.

limii r UNITED STATES Patented February 21, 1905.

PATENT OEEIcE.

THIMBLE FOR LASTS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,011, dated February 21, 1905. Application filed November 1, 1904. Serial No. 280,938.

To all whonzit may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANoIs E. BENTON, a resident of Stoughton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Thimbles for Lasts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

My invention relates to an improved thimble for lasts, the object of the invention being to provide a device of this character which will not split the last when driven therein, which will be eflectually locked in the last, obviating all liability of its accidental removal, and which will withstand all pressure thereon; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in section, illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view of the thimble removed, and Fig. 3 is a detached view of the thimblebottom. r

1 represents a shoe-last, and 2 my improved thimble, the cylindrical body of which is composed of heavy sheet metal bent into cylindrical form and having a series of rounded knobs 5 projected outward from its body. The lower end of body. 2 is slightly contracted, so as to firmly clamp logs or shoulders 3, struck from the heavy metal bottom 4E. The bottom 4 is of disk formation of a metal preferably thicker than the metal of body 2, and the lugs 3 are struck upward therefrom by driving a proper tool into the edge of the bottom, and when these lugs 3 are forced into the contracted end of body 2 they will be firmly clamped therein.

By constructing my improved thimble with the rounded knobs 5 the thimble can be driven into the socket in the last without danger of splitting the same, and the wood of the lastv WltllOHlJ departing from my invention, and

hence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A thimble for shoe-lasts, comprising a cylindrical body, a disk-like end, and lugs on the end clamped in the cylindrical body.

2. A thimble for shoe-lasts comprising a cylindrical sheet-metal body having rounded knobs projected outward therefrom.

3. A thimble for shoe-lasts, comprising a cylindrical sheet-metal body having rounded knobs struck therefrom, a disk-like bottom of greater thickness than the body and up wardlyprojecting lugs struck from the bottom and clamped in the end of the body.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS E. BENTON. lVitne'sses:

WILLIAM W. Risk, LENA Boso. 

